Amy Wright discusses ancient artifact found in Long Branch

Imagine, a day at the beach and finding what this girl found.

I can tell you this first hand.  The Long Branch beaches, like most others along the Jersey Shore, are magnificent.

Every morning between Memorial Day and Labor Day weekend the Long Branch Public Works Department works their magic to make the beaches pristine from Seven Presidents Beach all the way down to Brighton Avenue.

This past Labor Day weekend they missed one thing.

A young lady from Fair Lawn, visiting the shore for one last blast of summer, found something remarkable on that extraordinary beach.

Victoria Doroshenko, like most kids, was scouring the beach for shells.  Turns out the eleven-year-old came upon an object that was a bit more intriguing than a shell.

Victoria found a spear point.  Big deal.  Maybe it's a four or five hundred tears old.  Experts at The New Jersey State Museum beg to differ.

The museum believes the artifact is from the Adena culture and says the spear head was made around 1000 B.C.

A very quick history lesson.  I promise, the lesson will be short and painless.

The Adena culture dates back to prehistoric Native Americans.  They lived in an area that stretched from Indiana to the east coast.

History lesson over.  See, that wasn't too bad.

My point, not to be confused with spear head, is that Victoria's memento was not washed up from the ocean.

Yes, perhaps there were people 3000 years ago who called what is now The Jersey Shore, home.

Pretty cool!